The Puppet Who Could Not Find Joy

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Dear Diary (or Dear Self), “What do you love in this marionette world? Or is the world a puppeteer, pulling the strings of your heart? You cannot be the world’s marionette and still be a

One Sentence Inspiration

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“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” –Brother David Steindl-Rast

White Stag Diary: Even The Rocks Cry Out

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Dear Diary, I pulled out of my driveway this evening and started heading east. My mind was burdened after a hard day, but I was due to speak in thirty minutes at a local church.

One Sentence Inspiration

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“Joy is the serious business of heaven.” –C.S. Lewis from Letters to Malcolm

Joy Is Born From Remembering

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“My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you–I whom you have delivered.” -Psalm 71:23

One Sentence Inspiration

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“Silence is the perfect herald of joy.” -Shakespeare, from Much Ado About Nothing Claudio goes on to say, “I were but a little happy if I could say how much.” In other words, if I

White Stag Diaries: Chapter 3

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Dear Diary, I set out that early morning, so many years ago, convinced that by the end of my hour bike ride, I would have prayed THE prayer. How hard could it possibly be to

The White Stag Diaries: Chapter 2

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Dear Diary, “Like the poets who have learned to sit still and sense the gratuitous unfolding of gift around them, I will wait on the Lord who, alone, is Joy” Those were the final words